The Cat and the Canary 1927  N/R, 74 min.
Genre: Mystery / Horror
Director: Paul Leni
Cast: Laura LaPlante, Tully Marshall, Flora Finch, Creighton Hale, Gertrude Astor, Lucien Littlefield, Forrest Stanley, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Martha Mattox, George Siegmann, Billy Engle, Hal Craig
This silent film classic is about expectant heirs who spend the night in a haunted house. It has been 20 years since wealthy Cyrus West died, and relatives are there for the reading of his will, which demands that they spend one night in the house. And the night of frights begins with murder not out of the question.
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 The Man Who Laughs 1928 N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Leni
Cast: Mary Philbin, Conrad Veidt, Olga Baclanova, Josephine Crowell, George Siegmann, Brandon Hurst, Cesare Gravina, Stuart Holmes, Sam De Grasse, Charles Puffy, Julius Molnar Jr.
Gwynplaine (Conrad Veidt) is doomed to life as a circus freak after his nobleman father offended the King–resulting in the father's death and Gwynplaine's mutilation by having a grin permanently carved on his face. He and a blind girl (Mary Philbin) had been taken in by an itinerant performer and grew up to love each other. But life takes a turn when the King dies and the Queen brings him back to the fold on advice of the King's evil jester. Based on Victor Hugo's book. One of the last great silent dramas.
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Oliver Twist 1922  N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Jackie Coogan, Gladys Brockwell, Lon Chaney, Lionel Belmore, Esther Ralston, George Siegmann, James A. Marcus, Aggie Herring, Nelson McDowell, Lewis Sargent, Joan Standing, Carl Stockdale, Edouard Trebaol, Taylor Graves, Florence Hale
This is a good rendition of Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist." Performed as a silent movie, it stars Jackie Coogan in the title role of the young pickpocket Oliver Twist and Lon Chaney as his tutor, the devious Fagin.
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The Three Musketeers 1921 N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Adventure / Action / Romance
Director: Fred Niblo
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Leon Bary, George Siegmann, Eugene Pallette, Boyd Irwin, Thomas Holding, Sidney Franklin, Charles Stevens, Nigel De Brulier, Lon Poff, Marguerite De La Motte, Adolphe Menjou, Willis Robards, Mary MacLaren, Walt Whitman
Adventure star Douglas Fairbanks plays D'Artagnan in this version of the Alexandre Dumas classic. D'Artagnan arrives in Paris hoping to join the King's (Adolphe Menjou) Musketeers (Leon Bary, George Siegmann, and Eugene Pallette). He does so, and soon the Musketeers are involved in preventing the plot of the dastardly Cardinal Richelieu's (Nigel De Brulier) attempt to take over the crown.
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| 1. Anna Christie (1923)
2. The Cat and the Canary (1927)
3. The Man Who Laughs (1928)
4. Oliver Twist (1922)
5. The Three Musketeers (1921)
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